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The up-down-up drill sounds easy, but for people not used to it, it can feel awkward. To make the procedure as easy as possible, prepare your scripted speeches so that:
The letters are big enough to be read easily from three to four feet away. Laser printers can quickly produce enlarged conventional typeface, which should be one-third- to one-half-inch high.
Each sentence is a separate paragraph. (This makes it a lot easier to execute the drill we just discussed.) If the original text has several sentences in a paragraph, you can indicate which separated sentences belong to the original paragraph by not indenting those sentences. They would still be separate, just not indented on the speech copy. The only indented sentence would be the lead ...
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